How to get six pack abs

Six packs are one of the most attracting features of a man’s body, not only they are sexy and give your body a well-standing posture, they also support your back and abdomen; giving you strength and stability doing you daily life tasks.

How do I get six packs?

Straight to the point; there is no one thing that you do to get your six backs defined, it is a whole package deal of diet, exercises. A combination of those two will get you the abs you desire and maintain them after that.

Keep on reading to know how to make a diet and aworkout plan that sculpt your six pack abs.

Six pack abs diet plan

Gaining defined abs only by exercises is a misunderstanding, because even if you built those muscles, they won’t show if they were covered with layers of fat on top of them, so a well-designed diet is crucial to strip off abdominal fats.

There are two main things to focus on in your abs diet: calories quantity and calories source (i.e. quality), as follows:

1) Calories quantity

To stimulate excess fat burning, you need to create a calorie-restricted diet, i.e. reducing your overall daily caloric intake based on your own body needs. Go to how to use Fitnessyard tools for guidance on how to do this.

Avoid crash dieting; crash diets are more like a long-term muscle-loss plan than a long-term fat-loss plan, which is the opposite of what you need.

2) Calories quality

After you know your average daily calories needed, make sure you chose the right type and sources of foods that contain the nutrients you need to burn fat and build up six pack muscles.

Leveraging your proteinintake is highly important as well for couple of reasons;

Protein is the building block of muscle tissue,

It has high Thermic Effect of Food 20-30% (which is the amount of calories your body spends on digestion of food), so more protein foods means more caloric burning,

It gives satisfaction feeling, hence less food cravings,

It will prevent your body from using its own muscles for energy, preventing muscle wasting.

So focus on increasing your food intake of high value protein foods –especially after your workouts- such as lean meat, eggs, fish, turkey, poultry, milk and cheese. In addition to plant based protein like legumes, nuts and peanut butter.

Having that said, try not to become calorie counting maniac; it will stress you and may cause you to abandon your goal. You can see significant results by watching your food portions, eating nutritious foods and doing the right exercises.

Which brings us to the next point…

Six pack abs workout plan

While the obvious is to do exercises that target your upper and lower abdomen muscles (your six packs), it is also important to have core and all body strengthening exercises that support your abdomen muscles and build harmony with the rest of your body.

Other best practices for six pack training include:

Leave at least 48 hours between strength training days, (important to allow the muscles to recover and build new tissue).